snicker.
And so, over the 14 weeks spanning the beginning of August and the middle of November, House members will work a grand total of eight days – out of a possible 103. And after today, they’ll be away from work for the next 54 days.
I believe that they will still be drawing their salaries.
I gather that their heath care will continue.
Imagine if I did that?
Imagine what I would say to my employees?
Ask them to raise the minimum wage for people who work 40 hours a week for 50 weeks of the year.
Hell no.
Ask them to criticize people desperate to find work and they will line up before the cameras to declare how lazy they are.
Ask them to attend a fundraiser and they will be there as fast as light.
Ask them to do something for the American people?
Hell no.
It is not as if there is nothing to do, ah but, cant the President deal with all those little problems on his own?
Then we can raise hell when he does!
Benghazi Ebola at the borders!
ISIS at the mall!
I'm tempted to vote for cockroaches in November.
If they want to spend time preening, then their salaries and benefits should be stopped.
No work, no pay.